Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Chapters: Billy Wright, Ian Paisley, Shankill Butchers, Glenanne gang, Robin Jackson, Robert McConnell, Protestant Ascendancy, Billy Hanna, Red Hand Defenders, Orange Volunteers, Billy McCaughey, Harris Boyle, Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, Davy Payne, Alan Campbell, Lenny Murphy, Brian Nelson, Eric Smyth, Ron Johnstone, John McKeague, Succession to the Crown Act 1707, William Moore, John William Nixon, Ulster Protestant League, Tara, William McGrath, Belfast Protestant Association. Excerpt: The Glenanne gang was a name given, since 2003, to a loose alliance of Northern Ireland loyalist extremists who carried out sectarian killings and bomb attacks in the 1970s against the Irish Catholic and Irish nationalist community. Most of its attacks took place in the area of County Armagh and mid Ulster referred to as the "murder triangle" by journalist Joe Tiernan. It also launched attacks elsewhere in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. The gang included soldiers of the British Army, its Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the illegal paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and some Ulster Defence Association (UDA) members. It was allegedly commanded by British Military Intelligence and/or RUC Special Branch. The Pat Finucane Centre has attributed 87 killings to the Glenanne gang, including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Miami Showband killings, and the Reavey and O'Dowd killings. A number of these attacks has been affirmed by Glenanne gang member and RUC Special Patrol Group (SPG) officer John Weir in his sworn affidavit published in the 2003 Barron Report. This was the findings of an official investigation into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron. The RUC Special Patrol Group was a specialised police unit tasked with counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland. The name "Glenanne gang" is derived from the farm in Glenanne (near Markethill, County Armagh) that was used as the gang's arms dump and bomb-making site. The Glenanne gang comprised the Ulster Volunteer Force's Mid-Ulster Brigade, led by Robin "the Jackal" JacksonThe following people, among others, have been implicated by Justice Barron and Professor Douglass Cassel in their respective reports as having been members of the Glenanne gang: The gang has also been linked to Military Intelligence Liaison officer Captain Robert Nairac who worked for 14th Intelligence Company (